Idée Inc. extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr & Alamy Set. Using their visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.

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A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The "QR" is derived from "Quick Response", as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan, where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional codes.

With QR Codes the hardlink between the offline, physcial world and online, virtual world is established, so emily chang about mobile tagging...

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Qtpfsgui is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.

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Microsoft's Photosynth software is designed to craft a browsable 3D model by stitching together and analyzing multiple photographs....

Photosynth installs two programs on your computer: a Web browser plug-in for viewing synths, and an application (called "Photosynth") for creating them....

Photosynth was born of a collaboration between Microsoft and the University of Washington...

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TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology. Given an image to search for, TinEye tells you where and how that image appears all over the web—even if it has been modified.

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Cyclo.ps is in simple terms..."Google for stock photos sites." It allows users to enter their search term once and get results from stock photo sites in one easy to use interface. The current sites include, iStockphoto, Fotolia, Shutterstock, BigStockPhoto, and Photos.com.

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the desktop application now lets you create collages, retouch photos, add text to your images, and upload your videos to YouTube.
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You can now easily sync albums between your desktop and Picasa's online albums. Any change you make on the desktop will be reflected online.

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Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine!

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The Google Chart API is an extremely simple tool that lets you easily create a chart from some data and embed it in a webpage. You embed the data and formatting parameters in an HTTP request, and Google returns a PNG image of the chart. Many types of chart are supported, and by making the request into an image tag you can simply include the chart in a webpage.

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After all, there's already Picnik, Adobe Photoshop Express, FotoFlexer, and dozens of others. One of our favorites is Splashup, which has a very desktop application-like feel. And for the life of us, we can't decide if Sumopaint is just a simple Splashup clone or just an incredibly similar web app. [continue]

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